Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
Recipes for Getting Rich.

One of the most successful men in ac-
quiring fortune, now on the active
stage of life, remarks that the whole
world is absorbed in the pursuit of two
things, money and happiness, and as
the second is supposed to depend upon
the first, the pursuit of riches attracts
more effort, thought and energy than
all other pursuits combined. Any in
fallible recipe, or even hint towards
solving this problem, suppose by many
to be the most complex in life, will
meet hearty welcome. A symposium
OF opinions recently published gives
some pertinent advise on this subject.
and although it contains no new pre-
cepts and points out no royal road to
wealth, it is opposite, coming, as it
does, from men who started at the bot
tom round of the latter, where the vast
majority of young men must begin.
and who can give practical advice
drawn from their own experience.
The list includes such men as P. T.
Barnum, General Butler, Erastus
Wiman, Henry FaxOn, Charles A.
Pillsbury, the Minneapolis -four king,
and Russell Sage, the Wall Street mil
lionaire. Each of these men has
grown rich by his own persevering.
well-directed efforts. Their careers
have not been marked by any startling
NapoleOnic strokes of fortune. Their
pile" has increased slowly, steadily,
but surely. 1t is significant that they
all agree as to the real basis of success
in life. With ordinary good health
and habits of industry, perseverance
and economy, prosperity they believe is
sure to follow. This is the old advice
often repeated, and known to be good.
but too general to be serviceable to
young men just starting out in life,
who do not know for what pursuit
they are fitted, have not begun to earn
enough money to save any considera-
bic sum, but are anxious not to misdi
rect their efforts and misspend their
lives.
To the vast majority of such young
men the most pertinent advice in all
these opinions is that given by General
Butler. He tells them to do nothing
mean for money, to be prudent and
to work diligently, and as soon as pos
sible to marry prudent girl brought
up by the right kind of mother.
Those who follow this advice. he
thinks, will be sure to lay something
by, and this General Butler would
have them invest in real estate. how
ever small the sum. 1t is safer. he
thinks, the increase is surer and it gives
less worry and trouble to the owner
than any other kind of property. All
could not follow this recipe or there
would be no capital for manufacturing
enterprises, for railroad building and
for placing inventions. But General
Buffers advice is meant not for men
who are ambitious Of acquiring colossal
fortunes or rivaling the Napoleons of
Wall Street, hut for the plain work-a-
day young man, who is anxious to ac-
quire competence and give himself
and family some of the comforts and
enjOyments of life.
The advice Of z. T. Barnum is to be
prudent, read the newspapers, adver-
tise, be polite and civil and preserve
your integrity. Henry Faxon's max
inns are to keep clear of labor organiza-
tons and strikes, leave liquor alone,
be independent in politics, choose the
profession best suited to your tastes
and then be industrious in it. Mr..
Erastus Wiman would have young men
who want to get rich keep out of the
professions and watch for chances to
make combinations in great enterprises
push discoveries and inventions in
mechanical devices. Earn more than
you are paid for doing and never over
rate your own ability is Millionaire
Miller Pillsbnry's sure recipe for win
ming success. And Russell Sage refers
all young men to the advice given bv
POlonius" to his son "Laertes" in
Hamlet" which he says he learned
early and has followed steadily. The
opinions of every one of these men are
worthy of careful consideration bv
those who are anxious to make their
lives useful and profitable to them
selves and others. They are especially
recommended for the study of those
who imagine that success in this world
is due to luck and chance, and who are
waiting for the wheel of fortune to turn
and pour into their laps the wealth
they have neither earned or deserved.
philadelphia Press.